THE GATE OF THE PRINCE
1. The apostate condition of Judah. ch 4-24
2. God’s Divine judgements on the seven surrounding nations. ch 25-32
3. God’s promises and prophecy concerning the RESTORATION OF HIS GLORY. ch 33-48
It is from 3. above which I want to unfold Spiritual understanding of things yet to happen in God’s mighty plan and purpose for the revelation of The Lord Jesus Christ and His restoration of all things.
May the Holy Ghost bring a consciousness of the Glory of Jesus Christ to you as you read this Word, which will permeate your whole person, spirit soul and body. I ascribe to Jesus all honour and worship and respect, and give all praise to His Spirit of Revelation who is the revealer of all truth. Jesus Christ is soon to birth His Kingdom on the earth and as His prayer will be fulfilled that “His will shall be done on earth as it is in Heaven”. If you Seek the Face of Jesus you will see the knowledge of the Glory of God, and He will lead you to understanding by His Spirit.
To any born-again Christian reading this message, if you have never been filled with the Holy Spirit and entered the second realm of Spiritual Pentecost since your salvation, if you thirst you can simply ask Jesus now to fill you with His Holy Spirit and power. It is His desire that we all enter this second realm. He will honour His Word and fill you as you receive by faith, with the evidence of speaking in tongues as promised. In an outreach ministry which I conducted weekly in the city of Melbourne, I had numerous Christians approach me seeking for the baptism in the Spirit, as their particular church did not preach it. As you enter this realm, the Light of God’s Word will be opened unto you in a deeper dimension. Pentecostalism is not a denominational experience, but a Spiritual realm open to all believers. Bless you.
Now, in Ezekiel 43, the prophet is shown the Glory of God. His Glory is His Divine Nature which radiates from His whole person. This is Pure Light and Love undefiled and full of Life expressing the very awesomeness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ. He is Lord, and the day is coming when His Glory shall cover this earth and every knee will bow to Him, and every tongue confess that He is Lord.
What The Lord shows Ezekiel is the rebuilt temple with its ordinances and laws. He then shows him His Glory in the temple. To us this speaks of Spiritual realms where the actual physical temple is a shadow of Spiritual places in God. This is not intended to be an in-depth study of this book, but a revelation of things for our day and hour.
Ezekiel43:1-9 This speaks of the Glory of God coming into a temple. As the Shekinah Glory was the peculiar distinction in Moses tabernacle and the old temple of Solomon, so it is to be in this new temple but in proportion exceeding that of the former. The Glory of God comes from the gate that faces the east, the way whereby the Glory departed (11:22,23). The East is where the Light arises first and David’s tribe of Judah always camped facing the East. You see, the Sons of God have always looked to the place of the arising Light of the Glory of God, which is actually the Face of Jesus. From this gate the earth shines with His Glory. The Sons of God in Jesus coming Kingdom Day actually become a type of this gate as The Glory of God shines from them as it did from Moses when he emerged from the Presence of God in the Holy of Holies. So too with the Sons of God in the coming Kingdom of Jesus on this earth. They will emerge from the presence of The Lord changed into His Glorious Image, as distinct from Moses who had an outward glow of the Glory. (We see in Revelation ch.1, the Glory of God filling the earth as religious Babylon falls.)
In V4 that the Glory of The Lord entered by way of the east gate of His arising, and in V5, it filled the inner court of the house. You see beloved, the Glory of Jesus Christ has entered a people who have sought His Face, and from the place of His arising Glory He is filling them with His Divine Nature forming them into His own Glorious Image of Life and Immortality.
NOW, – in ch44:1, 2 we see that Jesus entered into this east gate AND IT WAS SHUT! A gate is simply an entry into somewhere, and it provokes one question, “what realm has Jesus entered into?” This was the gate into the realm of His Resurrection, Immortality, and Victory over satan and death. This gate has been closed, to all except The PRINCE who eats bread at the gate waiting to enter in!!! Even Ezekiel himself was unable to enter in, but rather was taken to the North gate, the place of God’s throne from where he beheld the Glory of the house.
In simple prophetic Truth, there is a gate reserved for THE PRINCE who eats of the Bread of Life, which is Jesus, and then enters into the realm of His Glory and Immortality. I believe that The PRINCE is the many-membered company of His Faithful Elect. The Bread is Jesus Himself, as He declared later that He is the Bread of Life, and when you eat of Him you partake of His Divine Nature. The gate is opened, and The Prince follows Him into the Glorious Spiritual Realm where He has entered. Blessed be His wonderful Name!
The entry through this gate is not via church day anointing, or religious doctrines and traditions. The Bread of Life has been at the gate to be eaten since the Resurrection of Jesus, and it has been found by His Sons who have hungered for Him. The Light has arisen, and the Prince Company waiting at the East Gate have been partaking of Him, being nourished, changed, filled and prepared to enter through that Gate. The East Gate can be likened to the entrance to the Garden of Eden, on the path back to the Tree of Life.
Summary to date:
1. The Prince cannot be Jesus. We saw in 44:1, 2 that Jesus has already entered in and the gate was shut. Also, in 46:4, the Prince makes an offering to the Lord. Jesus would not do this unto Himself. In the Bible commentary by Jamieson Fausset and Brown, they conclude that the Prince must mean a civil ruler under Jesus. Many may have their own views on this, but I believe that the Prince is on the earth today as the Sons of God, a Company of Christians who have hungered and thirsted after perfection, and await the fullness of Jesus Glory in them.
2. The entry of the Prince through the gate is their climactic following of Jesus into Life and Immortality where He Himself has entered in.
3. To the Prince, the eating of the Bread is the partaking of the Word, even Jesus Christ which is perfecting them to the fullness of Salvation, body soul and spirit.
4. Eating of Jesus simply means believing His Word and taking it into your whole being without doubt.
THE ELECT PRINCE COMPANY
The Hebrew word used in the passage for “prince” literally means “lifted up or exalted one”. In 1Peter5:6, it says that “if you humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, He will exalt you in due time”. The Elect of God are those who have humbled themselves under His hand, and according to the verse, are exalted by God. They have surrendered to His call and hungered and thirsted for the Bread of Life. You do not know them, for they carry no fame. They are not seen on the platforms of religion, nor wear the ecclesiastical robes of the man-centred religious order. They carry the scars of rejection and scorn as they have faithfully stood in this Glorious truth. They have one heart and see together. They seek nothing for themselves, but await the dawning of the coming Kingdom Day of Jesus on this earth.
Yes, God does have His Elect. You will see them right through the Bible. People whom He has chosen and used for His purposes. Ordinary people who have made themselves available to Him by choice. Some people choose the things of life. People choose careers, fame and pursue earthly interests. In the same way the Elect are those who have forsaken the worldly pursuits and sought the higher realms in God. This has been their hunger and thirst. This is their choice, and this is why they are chosen. Like the disciples and apostles of old they have forsaken earthly pursuits to fulfil the burning in their heart to obey the call of The Lord. Yet for this they are labelled egotistical and arrogant mainly by the religious. Well, scripture and Truth stand.
Jesus Christ died on a Roman cross 2000 years ago, in the greatest manifestation of sacrifice, love and grace ever seen on this planet. He carried the burden of sin which has infected mankind since the fall of Adam. He not only dealt with the sin problem once and for all for mankind, but conquered satan and death, rising triumphant from it, holding its keys in victory and power, and He is now seated in His throne of authority, righteousness and judgement. His mercy has been extended to man for 2000 years as His church has preached the gospel of reconciliation of man back unto God. His plan and purpose does not stop there, and we are in the day and generation where we are about to see His Glory come to this earth where His Light, Wisdom and Truth shall rule over creation, as the rudiments of this humanistic world are consumed by the Light of His Glory. He has been forming a company of His people in the womb of His church known to Him as His Sons, His Elect or His Faithful Ones who shall come forth as His Priesthood of this new day. His Kingdom Day will extend for 1000 years as peace and righteousness reign on the earth.
His Glory will shine forth from His living temples as His priests reveal and proclaim Him as the Lord of Glory. The last 2000 years of grace have been for man’s benefit as Jesus has been revealed as the Saviour. The coming thousand year day will be for Jesus Christ as He is revealed as Lord.
The Law of the Mountain
In Ezekiel’s temple there is only one law. There are no man-made rules of religious dominance and control which have crept into the church. The temple of glory has only one law, and it is seen in ch.43:12. The law is that the Whole of the Mountain of ZION becomes the Holy of Holies. The outer court of Salvation and the second realm of Pentecost in the temple are all consumed by ZION, now taking on the Whole Glory of the Holy of Holies. As the verse says, “Behold, this is the law of the house”. All Glory to Jesus! David’s Glorious Zion, the City of the Great King, the GATES of which were loved by Jehovah more than all the dwellings of Jacob, the place of all the Fountains of The Lord, the place where Praise waiteth for The Lord, this Glorious realm of Spiritual Zion. To its top and around all its borders, it becomes the Holy of Holies. THE HOLY OF HOLIES IS WHERE HIS PRESENCE IS. The Law of the Mountain is the LAW OF HIS PRESENCE. It’s the only Law. Unless you find His Presence you are lost in the outer realms of religious ordinance!!
The Lord is going to fulfil all His promises to David by exalting Zion. This is not natural Israel, but the highest Spiritual realm where the Lord now establishes one law by declaration, that His Glorious Zion is now The Most Holy Place. Psalm 87 declares Zion to be the birthplace of those who know Him, His true worshipers. Zion is the realm of Praise and the New Song from those who have in them the broken spirit and contrite heart. Psalm 2:6, The Lord has set His King upon His Holy hill of Zion. V 7, it is the birthplace of His Sons. Psalm 48:2, Zion is the joy of the whole earth, the City of the great King. Psalm 50:2, God shines out of Zion, the PERFECTION of beauty. Psalm 133:3, IN ZION, THE LORD COMMANDED THE BLESSING, EVEN LIFE FOR EVERMORE!!! Zechariah 9:13 , Sons will be raised up in Zion. Jeremiah 2:14,15
Psalm 134:
“Come Bless The Lord
All ye servants of The Lord
Who stand by night
In the House of The Lord,
Lift up your hands
IN THE HOLY PLACE,
And Bless The Lord
And Bless The Lord”.
“The Lord Who Made Heaven and Earth, BLESS THEE OUT OF ZION”
The prophet Obadiah in 587 B.C. in v 21 prophesied that “saviors (the Sons of God) would come up on Mount Zion as judges in the Kingdom of Jesus”. Let me prophecy to you that the SAVIORS ARE ARISING ON THE MOUNTAIN OF SPIRITUAL ZION! These Saviours are The Prince. You are going to see their appearing and even more wonderful; you will see the appearing of Jesus Nature, Glory and Perfection in them. They have gone through the East Gate of His Divine Nature and will emerge filled with His Glory as the Type of Moses emerging fro the Holy of holies covered with the Glory of The Lord. The difference with the Prince is that the Glory will be the Divine Nature in their inner man rather that its effect showing outwardly. The highest peak of Zion was Mt. Moriah where Solomon’s Temple of Glory was built. This was the place of God’s rest and Glory.
The Zion Saviours will cover the earth with peace, safety, defence, salvation, preservation, deliverance, rescue and help. Yes they may even be civil rulers.
The Lord will fulfil His covenant to David that there will always be a Light on his Throne which will shine as the sun before Him.
PSALM 24
David in Psalm24 speaks of the citizens of God’s Spiritual Kingdom of Zion:
In v 3 – The question is asked: “who shall ascend into the hill of The Lord, or who shall stand in the Holy of Holies?”
In v 4 – The answer is given. He that has clean hands and a pure heart free from pride and deception.
In v 5 – These ones receive the blessing. You see, to receive, you have to ascend into the high
Spiritual realm where there is only one law.
In v 6 - THESE ONES ARE THE GENERATION OF THEM THAT SEEK HIS FACE
In v 7-10 - Jesus the King of Glory enters the gates which are lifted up. The everlasting doors are lit. “age-lasting doors”.
This world is in the generation of the “Face seekers” spoken of by David. The Lord is about to fulfill in the Spiritual, that which He did in Solomon’s Temple. His Glory will fill His Temple, His Sons which have sought His Face.
How do you seek His Face?
The same way David did: Psalm27:8 – “When You said Seek My Face, my HEART said unto Thee, THY FACE LORD, WILL I SEEK”.
It’s only your heart that can see His Face. It’s only your heart that can see His Glory. There is a highway that leads to Zion. It is in your heart if you find it. Jeremiah 3:14 says that He will take one out of a city, and two of a family and BRING THEM TO ZION. V 15 – in Zion are the pastors with the HEART OF GOD, which feed with knowledge and understanding. V 16 – In that day the ark of the covenant will not be central, but V 17 – ALL NATIONS SHALL BE GATHERED TO ZION, TO THE NAME OF THE LORD!! This excites me! All Praise unto Jesus!!!
The Lord brought me to Spiritual Zion in the early 1980’s because I sought His Face, and I have lived there through many natural trials and circumstances through which the Lord has brought me, but I survived by the same Mercy which David found. I continually stood as a seed of David of the Spiritual Tribe of Judah and I can personally testify that the Lord is going to spread this same ZION mercy across creation through the Zion Sons of God.
My precious brothers and sisters in the womb, we are in the last stage of His forming. I know that all of us have experienced a conscious death of the dross of the natural man, and suffered in the fire of His burning, but don’t forget that it is also the fire of perfecting to reveal the pure gold. Our circumstances will change. There is a “lifting up” as with Job. A little while and our trials will give way to a Glorious release as our Lord declares “these are My beloved Sons”, and our mourning shall be turned to dancing, our sackcloth shall be removed and we shall be girded with gladness, to the end that our Glory shall sing praise to The Lord and not be silent. We shall see the Goodness and Glory of The lord in the land of the living.
To Christians who may never have heard these words preached, and may wonder, look unto the Lord and not to man. Seek Him with your whole heart remembering that the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and a humble heart, and He will reveal all truth to you if you run after Him. Religion will not produce Life, it will only tire and confuse you, keeping you in activity, programmes and bondage. I challenge the religious shepherds to allow an end-time prophet into their pulpits. I challenge the sheep that are hungry and searching for food. Ask the Lord to reveal Truth to you. Ask him to lead you to the shepherds of Zion who have his own heart. Believe to see the Glory of The Lord.
To any unsaved person reading this, Jesus calls you to Himself. He died that you might be reconciled back as a child of God. Accept Him as your Saviour. You will never find Him with your intellect; you have to come to Him with child-like faith. Confess that Jesus is the Son of God, that He died for you, and that you believe He arose from the dead. Ask Him to come into your heart. You will be born-again in your spirit. He does not call you to religion, but ask Him to bring Bible believing Christians into your life. They will love and encourage you. The devil may try to lie to you, but don’t listen. Bless you.
ALL GLORY TO JESUS
LARRY WILSON
